No Green Light on granting ex post facto Environmental Clearances to industries The Ministry of Environment and Forest issued a notification dated 27th of January 1994 on the Environment Impact Assessment of Development Projects that regulated the expansion of then existing development projects and the creation...
Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma: Exploring the Prospective Dimensions of Family Law through its Retroactive Application The ambiguities and uncertainties in the law as well as the disputes pertaining to the provisions of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, were settled in this case to a...
ITC Ltd v. Nestle India Limited: Intriguing Insights on Intellectual Property Law The plaintiff (ITC Limited) is a multinational Indian company established in 1910. In 2010, ITC began offering noodles in two flavours, ‘Classic Masala' and 'Magic Masala’, under the name of 'Sunfeast Yippee'. The defendant (Nestle)...
The National Education Policy was approved by the Union Cabinet on the 29th of July, 2020, with the objective of providing a concrete, holistic, all-inclusive, and universalised framework for pre-elementary to higher education in India, including vocational studies within its purview; replacing the previously introduced...
[By Divyanshi Shrivastava. The author is a student at Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur.] Introduction Syria, a war-torn country has witnessed little to no improvement in its debilitating conditions. The unstable economic policies and brutal political repressions have made problems worse. The threat to human rights in...
[By Rudra Shandilya and Disha Chaturvedi] The authors are students at Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam Introduction Perceived by the common law from the nineteenth century, pre-emptive rights are allowed to the current shareholders in an entity, in proportion to their existing holdings, so that they...
Bio: Mr. Swarnendu Chatterjee is an Advocate-On-Record, Supreme Court of India, and a Senior Associate at L&L Partners, Delhi.The series of never-ending court trials of the cases affecting the relations with foreign companies don’t seem to be ending any sooner. Every other day we witness...
[By Akshat Agrawal] The author is a lawyer specializing in IP theory and the intersection of law and culture. He is currently working as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Delhi High Court. Akshat has served as an editorial board member of the Jindal International and...